Hello, hello everybody. Welcome back to another episode of Fluently Forward. Today, we are going to be

talking about White Lotus Season 3. I've already done a podcast about White Lotus season two,

which was my favorite season, and I resurfaced that on the podcast feed yesterday in case you

want to catch up. But today we're going to be talking all about season 3, which is taking place in

Thailand. We're going to go over a little season three, which is taking place in Thailand.

We're going to go over a little bit of an intro on the show, some fun facts about it, because the way that they film, honestly, any HBO show, I just feel like, oh, they do it right, you know?

So we're going to go into some fun facts, kind of weird things you might not know about the season, how they filmed it, and then we're going to take it character by character, go over a little bit of interesting fun facts about

them in real life, and then explore some of their blind items and rumors.

Because in doing the research for this episode, I have a little pet theory.

Mike White, the creator of White Lotus, he reads blind items,

or he like knows what's going on in the gossip sense because the way that especially for the

Jacqueline character, the Saxton character, the Victoria character, I was looking up their

blind items. And this isn't like since the show started, somebody could have been lying,

although somebody could always be lying when it comes to blind items. But this was like,

I don't know, blind items from 2014 and 2016. And I was like, holy shit, it's exactly who their

character is in White Lotus. So we're going to dive into this. Without further ado, let's get into it. So season

three in White Lotus, they are following the lives of the staff and the wealthy guests at the

wellness resort in Thailand. Mike White has kind of said that his theme for the different seasons is

that season one, he said, is going is that season one he said is going to

highlight money season two is going to highlight sex that's why i liked it so much and then he says

and the third season would quote be a satirical and funny look at death and eastern religion and spirituality

and he says i feel like it could be a rich tapestry to do another round of

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